adjective
athemitas
Strong’sG111
illegal, unlawful
stem athemit-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** ἀ-θέμιτος (late form of ἀθέμιστος, LS, MM, VGT, s.v.), -ον
(< θέμις, custom, right), [in LXX: II Mac 6:5 7:1 10:34, III Mac 5:20*;]
SYN.: v.s. ἄθεσμος.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G111 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidath-em'-ee-tos
from the base of G5087); illegal; by implication, flagitious
Fromfrom G1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of θέμις (statute;
King Jamesabominable, unlawful thing.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
or ἀθέμιτος, ον, (the former in Poetry, the latter more correct in Prose) = {ἀθεμίστιος}, Refs 8th c.BC+; of the Cyclopes, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἀθεμιστότεροιRefs 5th c.BC+adverb -ίστως Phaennis cited in Refs 2nd c.AD+ -ίτως Refs 2nd c.AD+
II of things, unlawful, frequently in neuter, ἀθέμιτα ἔρδεινNT+5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | athemitos | athemitas | athemitem1×ἀθέμιτόν | athemitois | athemitais | athemiteim |
| object accusative | athemiton | athemitan | athemitoin | athemitain | ||
| direct address vocative | athemitor | athemitar | athemitoir | athemitair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | athemitou | athemitau | athemiteu | athemitoiu | athemitaiu | athemiteiu |
| to, for dative | athemito | athemita | athemite | athemitoi | athemitai1×ἀθεμίτοις | athemitei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
athemit is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
athemitem“unlawful”subject or objectdirect singular1×
Acts 10:28… tē pros autoin; Vis epistovō hōs athemitem atō andro Ioudaio kollorō ē proserchorō …… said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jew to …
athemitai“lawless”to, fordative plural1×
1 Peter 4:3“lawless”… aselgeiai, epithumiai, oinoflugiai, kōmoi, potoi, kai athemitai eidōlolatriai.… debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.